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January 4, 2025

2025

Hope everyone is having a good holiday break! I’ve got a few announcements to kick off the new year.

New Zine

First off, I’ve got a new zine up for preorder. It’s called More Frontier Activities. You can probably guess from the title that it’s a loose sequel to the collection of western themed drawings I put out earlier this year. This one is bit more deliberate, and is TWO colors instead of one.

You can preorder a copy here

zine cover for More Frontier Activities. The illustration depicts Basil, Plus Man, and a cat investigating the ruins of an old well. There are a couple of birds hanging around, and a few desert crabs too.

New Prints

I have a pile of new prints available. There were a couple of spreads from some recent comics that I felt lent themselves to some big formatting.

This spread from Empanada is now a 20×16 print. You can check those out here

a picture of a print. the print is an illustration of two kids wandering around an ethereally lit memorial garden ruin.

Next up is this spread from my most recent book, Hearing Things. It’s available at 16×12, which you can find here

a picture of a print. the print is a spread from the book hearing things, which depicts a kid and a cat getting some field recordings in a haunted house. There are a bunch of objects flying around the room, making all kinds of racket.

I have two smaller 4×6 prints available as well. More info here & here

illustration of kiki and jiji from kiki's delivery service, riding a broomstick on their way to deliver some bread
illustration of tintin and snowy being chased down a temple hallway by a mummy

New Pictures

Since basically every social media platform is now scraping data to feed to AI, I’m transitioning to posting my 35mm pictures on patreon as well. I’ll keep them as free updates, so you don’t need to pay or have an account to see them. The most recent one is here

a photo of sunset at griffith park, looking west towards the pacific ocean. Two people are silhouetted in the distance.

New Comics

Last up, I’m finally set to serialize the final version of Young Shadow & The Watchdogs on my patreon.

You can read the updates for as little as $1 per month. Every little bit helps me work on the comic.

Thanks for reading!

-ben

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